My mother and I immediately started to schedule calls to continue talking. We had over 50 years of life to catch up, and we wanted to know everything about each other. She missed my childhood, so I sent many photos at various stages of my life. We were amazed at the similarities between our pictures for the first 5 years of life… DNA is amazing that way. I began to change as a teen, and we didn’t favor each other as much. We quickly began to look for a time for her to come to my hometown for an in-person meeting. It was 6 weeks after my biological father came to town, and she brought her son. He was the perfect traveling companion for this occasion.
We met at the airport, and I felt like this was a moment right out of the movies! We had already learned so much about each other, but we just had to physically touch each other and look into each other’s eyes. It was a moment I will remember until the day I die.
Julienne Travis - Author 